Just a heads-up on an upcoming event that you might want to keep in mind. VASA is planning another year of the Wall to Wall student art sale. This will take place in the AMS Gallery in the Student Union Building from November 22-25th. Guidelines for submissions will be sent out via email to all Visual Art Students on November 1st but keep in mind this event is coming up so you can put aside some time to create a piece to submit! We want to be able to cover the walls in a salon-style as we did last year. This means that works of the drawing, print, photography, and painting medium work best for the space. This is an opportunity for students to display their work as well as a chance to sell it. If you have any questions, feel free to email paigefour@gmail.com.

Behind the Scene Gallery Tours
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the white walls of the gallery space? Now is your chance!

Join the Belkin Art Gallery’s Public Programs Director, Naomi Sawada for a behind the scenes tour of two Vancouver galleries. There are ten spots available and will be filled by the first ten visual arts students to email Paige Armstrong at paigefour@gmail.com.

When: November 5th from 12-3:30
Where: OR Gallery and Centre A

http://www.orgallery.org/ , http://www.centrea.org/ , http://belkin.ubc.ca/

School is almost here and we are kicking it off with another year of the Imagine Day BBQ outside Lassere! It is a collaborative event with Art History Students Association and you can come sign up for memberships, chat with other faculty members/students and eat FREE japa-dogs. Come say hello!

It has been a great honour to be able to work with enthusiastic and dedicated executive members this past year. As the president of VASA 2010-2011, I would like to thank all the people who have helped, supported, and enabled us to hold many exciting events that we created for the first time for Visual Arts Students of UBC. It was truly a memorable experience that we could have and talk about for a long time.

It is time to pass our legacy to the next team, VASA 2011-12 and we are very excited to hear their new success stories!

Yoriko Gillard

VASA President (2010-11)

Yours Truly, VASA
Meet the team who started Wall-to-Wall, MESH, the very first VASA Newsletter and more.

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An open letter to the UBC Visual Arts faculty,

We feel that there have been a number of negative interactions between students and faculty recently, and are worried about this causing a negative shift in the atmosphere of the department. We want the department to remain a supportive and safe place to experiment, and we would like to create open communication regarding these feelings to ensure that it does.

Specifically, we are referring to events such as the performance in VISA 481, the cleanup of the sculpture graveyard (space between BC Binning and Dorothy Somerset), and conflicts and miscommunication surrounding work in the “Effects become causes” show. We are not interested in assigning blame and likely would not find any of these events too alarming in the singular. We are worried because these events have all happened in rapid succession.

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Art Takes You Places
Featuring: Marina Roy, Eric McKinnon

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Guest speaker / Artist: Linda Ohama
Event planner / Collaborating artist: Yoriko Gillard

Date: Sunday, Feb. 27th 2011
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Place: Dr. Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre, UBC
Event type: Linda Ohama’s film screening & Artist talk
Entrance fee: $5

Linda Ohama
www.lindaohama.com

PROFILE   Since the early 1970′s, Linda has worked as an exhibiting visual artist, educator, and independent filmmaker.

She was born and raised in Rainier, Alberta where her parents had a family potato farm. She is a third generation Canadian of Japanese ancestry (sansei) and has always been an active member of her cultural and arts communities, both locally and internationally.

Presently, she continues directing films, lecturing, and working to help build ties between Japan and Canada through special programs with young people, including building sister high school relationships and the ’2009 Chibi Taiko Vancouver-Onomichi project’.

Linda graduated with degrees in arts (fine arts) and education and attended University of Calgary (Alberta), Banff School of Art, Bishop’s University (Quebec), and University of British Columbia.

After teaching art in both public and private schools in Quebec and Ontario for several years, she moved to the West Coast and turned her attention to her professional visual and film careers.

Since then, she has had numerous exhibitions in major galleries across Canada and has produced and directed eight independent award-winning films that have received international screenings and television broadcasts and recognized with several distinguished awards.

Her community work has also included sitting on various Boards and Committees including the BC Arts Council (Victoria, B.C.), Moving Images Distribution (Vancouver) , the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund (Ottawa, Ontario), Uzume Taiko (Vancouver), National Nikkei Heritage Centre (Burnaby, B.C.) and Chibi Taiko (Vancouver). Over the years, Linda has also served on assessment juries for the Canada Council, Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, DOXA, BC Arts Council, and Heritage Canada.

Today, Linda divides her time between Vancouver, Canada and Onomichi, Japan to continue her research, films, writing, teaching and cultural works.

To All Tomorrow’s Parties

February 17th, 2011

The 4th year SFU visual art students are hosting a huge fundraiser art event called, “To All Tomorrow’s Parties” on Thursday, February 17th at the Lion’s Den Gallery, and would love for all local artists, UBC, ECU and VFS art students (in film, theatre, music and the visual arts) to partake in the show! Our goal’s not only to raise funds for our upcoming grad show, but also to showcase and put out some rad talents in and around Vancouver. We are also looking for local bands and musicians to provide some upbeat tunes for the night!

- SFU Visual Art Students